Forum: Politics
12-22-2005, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 458
Re: Saving areas from oil exploration - realistic?
>>Is it really realistic? Will not the ever-increasing scarcity of oil eventually lead to exploration?<<
At some point ANWR will get tapped. Not because it will materially lower US dependence on...
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Forum: Politics
12-22-2005, 05:14 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 175
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Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 1,509
Re: zipo file
>> Hey, where you been? I'd flame your little behind some more<<
LOL - more delusions boy? Your little booty has been publicly spanked cherry-red (glowing like Rudolph's nose - a special holiday...
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Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 1,509
Re: Big, Fat Reality Check
>>The "slippery sloap" thing is just an overused scare tactic.<<
It's not a 'tactic' - it addresses a reality that our founders were acutely aware of, namely that 'power corrupts'. That is...
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Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 1,509
Re: Big, Fat Reality Check
>>The terrorists have that determination and so should we as far as making temporary exceptions regarding some personal liberties<<
The problem here is the 'slippery slope'.
The Executive...
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Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 1,509
Re: Big, Fat Reality Check
>>but just that by keeping them shorter, when Cyrus feels compelled to parse them line by line and word by word and rebut to each minute part, then his overall reply post won't have to be 3 monitor...
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Forum: Politics
12-17-2005, 02:31 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Zipo with breeches open
Well, it was fun for awhile making you chase your tail, but now your antics are just boring.
So, keep posting, We'll see if anyone keeps reading.
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Forum: Politics
12-16-2005, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 145
Re: John McCain douche-baggery
>>You realize that taxation is an abomination, but you advocate (through sarcasm) a convoluted system of liberty-restriction instead of getting rid of taxation. <<
Ah, getting rid uf taxation.
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Forum: Politics
12-16-2005, 04:40 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 145
Re: John McCain douche-baggery
It is an outrage that any politician would try and prevent monied special interests from using their wealth to promote their agendas of extracting more wealth from taxpayers.
Campaign finance...
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Forum: Politics
12-16-2005, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Zipo in sundicated re-run
>> The post written by me in THIS thread clearly accused you of hurling the "anti-semite" epithet against anyone who dares say something "bad" about Israel. <<
Of course, I proved conclusively...
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Forum: Politics
12-16-2005, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 168
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Forum: Politics
12-15-2005, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 159
Re: Iran President Elected?
>>Not clear to me what is goal is, but it may be to increase anti-US sentiment in the region to lower the chance of a US attack on Iran. <<
Clearly, he is trying to bolster support in the region...
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Forum: Politics
12-15-2005, 06:18 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 477
Re: Le Heil Hitler
>>Of course, what better way is there to stifle discourse and debate, than by hurling accusations of racism and fascism?<<
This is a common tactic, so common that these kind of accusations and...
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Forum: Politics
12-15-2005, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Zipo as a li\'l red vanishing light
>>At last, you realized when to fold 'em<<
Naw. You were exposed, and you're going to keep dancing at the end of the rope you were given.
You claimed you "never said" my abhorrence of the...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 07:05 PM
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Replies: 105
Views: 647
Re: who were behind 9/11?
>>I personally think the Pennsylvania plane was shut down though.<<
Personally, I think it may well have been shot down also.
Tough to make the decision to do that, but I don't know of a viable...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 04:10 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 235
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Zipo dervish
>>You want a "single specific example"? Didn't I tell you to choose any phrase, at random<<
More twisting, squirming, and ducking. The more I crank up the heat, the faster you dance - hilarious....
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 235
Re: How Good of A Friend is Canada to the US?
>>but they are major enough to condemn the totality.<<
Well, at least you clarified your position unambiguously.
Black and white thinking, though. Which is funny, because that's one of the...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 235
Re: How Good of A Friend is Canada to the US?
Well, my point is that US foreign policy is complex and multidimensional, consisting of many 'agendas' - and in fact there are tensions between constituencies/agencies within American institutions...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 235
Re: How Good of A Friend is Canada to the US?
>>It is unsustainable since the US is not powerful enough in itself to succeed in its agenda<<
Specifically, what "agenda" are you referring to? Your previous comment addressed the totality of US...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 235
Re: How Good of A Friend is Canada to the US?
>>Isn't it good that your allies point out that your current way of conducting foreign policy is unsustainable? <<
Wow. Our "foreign policy" is unsustainable? I can understand how there might be...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Live some more
>>I responded by pointing out that your whole post (which you placed as a response to mine) is full of platitudes. <<
You keep asserting this, and yet you have not provided a single specific...
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Forum: Politics
12-14-2005, 02:56 AM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: Live and let live
>>But the way I see things, you are incapable of reasoned argument<<
You, Cyrus, took great offense and reacted emotionally in the extreme to my posts, and accused me of using "platitudes" in this...
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Forum: Politics
12-13-2005, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 851
Re: And cream too
>>You have been challenged to provide any evidence of such behavior and you failed completely to do so.<<
What occurred was that you were offered a length of rope, with which you could hang...
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